3. The third privilege is the Adoption of his person: 1Having predestinated us to the Adoption of children by Jesus Christ*. A believer is made of the blood royal of heaven. This adoption, or son-ship consists in three things: 1. A ⟨p. 46⟩transition, or translation from one family to another. As a plant must be taken out of one soil and put into another, else it cannot properly be said to be transplanted. He that is adopted, is taken out of the old family of the devil, Ephes. 2.2. and Hell, ver. 3. to which he was heir apparent, and is made of the family of heaven, ver. 19. of a noble family, [Greek or Hebrew]. God is his Father, Christ his elder Brother, the Saints Co-heirs, the Angels Fellow-servants in that Family. §22. Adoption consists in an immunity and disobligement from all the laws of the former family, Psal. 45.10. Forget also thy Fathers house. He that is spiritually adopted, hath now no more to do with sin. Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with Idols*? A child of God hath indeed to do with sin as with an enemy, to which he gives battle; but not as with a ⟨p. 47⟩Lord, to which he yields obedience. He is free from sin*, I do not say he is free from duty. Was it ever heard that a child should be freed from duty to his Parents? This is such a freedom as Rebels take. 3. Adoption consists in a legal investiture into all the §3rights and privileges of the family into which the person is to be adopted. There are four of these royalties, or privileges.
3. The third priviledge is the Adoption of his person: 1Having predestinated us to the Adoption of children by Iesus Christ*. A believer is made of the blood royall of heaven. This adoption, or son-ship consists in three things: 1. A ⟨p. 46⟩transition, or translation from one family to another. As a plant must be taken out of one soile and put into another, else it cannot properly be said to be transplanted. He that is adopted, is taken out of the old family of the devil, Ephes. 2.2. and Hell, ver. 3. to which he was heir apparent, and is made of the family of heaven, ver. 19. of a noble family, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. God is his Father, Christ his elder Brother, the Saints Co-heirs, the Angels Fellow-servants in that Family. §22. Adoption consists in an immunity and disobligement from all the lawes of the former family, Psal. 45.10. Forget also thy Fathers house. He that is spiritually adopted, hath now no more to do with sin. Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with Idols*? A childe of God hath indeed to do with sin as with an enemy, to which he gives battel; but not as with a ⟨p. 47⟩Lord, to which he yields obedience. He is free from sinne*, I do not say he is free from duty. Was it ever heard that a childe should be freed from duty to his Parents? This is such a freedome as Rebels take. 3. Adoption consists in a legall investiture into all the §3rights and priviledges of the family into which the person is to be adopted. There are foure of these royalties, or priviledges.
- 13. [Greek or Hebrew].3. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
- *Eph. 1.5.
- *Hos. 14.8.
- *Rom. 6.18.
